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...White House. The President & Mrs. Hoover frowned down costly gifts, decided all presents should be inexpensive. Three days before Christmas Mr. Hoover with his sons and daughter-in-law went shopping for the children, pushed their way like ordinary persons through the Washington store crowds. At the toy department of Woodward & Lothrop the President picked out a gasoline filling station and a war tank. Son Allan (now in banking) handled the family cash. At Garrison's on E Street Mr. Hoover was fascinated with a miniature electric range, bought it and a tea set and some toy cooking utensils...
...with biblical grandeur. It was as he picked Bunny Leverett up by his long aristocratic ears, holding it aloft so that every one could see, that the immortal nature of the rabbit was discovered; its sawdust interior was felt to be of sterner stuff than the ordinary run of toy store rabbits...
Surrender (Fox). In Surrender Director William K. Howard takes his camera into a German castle, shows what happened there during the War. The owner, a German count approaching dotage, plays with toy soldiers. The castle is near a prison camp run by a captain who wears a black bandage over one side of his face, who blows his brains out when the War is over. The most pleasant thing that happens is a love affair between a French prisoner (Warner Baxter) and the fiancee of the count's son (Leila Hyams). This nearly turns out badly. Baxter tries...
...FARTHING Lousana, Alberta The U. S. levies tariffs on: 1) books and periodicals printed abroad by lithographic process (fashion periodicals, 8? per lb.); 2) books less than 20 years old in English by foreign authors (15%) or by U. S. authors (25%); 3) children's books (15%), "toy" books (70%). But bibles, books for public libraries or in foreign languages are duty free, no important foreign periodicals are affected...
...Julius Curtius, Germany's Foreign Minister, whispered news into his ear: Frau Barbara von Haeften, Minister Curtius' daughter, had just borne a son in Berlin, Foreign Minister Curtius' first grandson. As a diplomat should. Statesman Stimson remembered this fact when, later, he reached Berlin. At a toy store he selected and sent to small Grandson Jan von Haeften a large sailboat. Last week a letter from Berlin reached Statesman Stimson in Washington...